impossible songs

These are just fleeting thoughts from the heartland of the UK's colonial dustbin somewhere beyond the wall of sleep. Odd bits of music and so-called worldly wisdom may creep in from time to time. Don't expect too much and you won't feel let down. As ever AI and old age are to blame. I'll just leave it there ...

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Usual Low Key

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  Shimmering, familiar but almost unrecognizable, a step away from reality, in world where a mystical light plays upon random objects. Today...
Saturday, February 27, 2021

A machine of perpetual grievance

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  Some short seemingly non-existent paragraphs from a short non-existent novel based around a Guardian feature I didn't read. Machines: ...
Friday, February 26, 2021

The wall of tone and volume

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Welcome to the wall of tone. Turn it up or down or over. Blow up the volume. Try to find the sweet spot. Tweak. Crank it up. A flick of a di...
Thursday, February 25, 2021

Can't be bothered?

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Punch Drunk: The real problem with the Covid crazy train is that for many people (those actually untouched by the virus's real and tragi...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

All things might pass

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"Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your Guitar God. I will strengthen your truss rod. Yes, I will help you stay in...
Tuesday, February 23, 2021

Mad about the blog

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  By way of further explanation: The words, "Can only have been revisited and doctored by a madman", are inscribed in pencil in th...
Monday, February 22, 2021

When life gives you salt and vinegar crisps...

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  ...you make a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich. Don't forget to choose a nice fresh loaf and include plenty of butter, mayo or brown sa...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Time well spent

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David Attenborough suggests that we should all go out (as conditions allow) into the woods or countryside and just sit still and watch that ...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Screenshot 44

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By way of explanation: Just a few lines here about Screenshot 44. That's 44 not 43 or 45. Neither of them compared well with the big 44,...
Friday, February 19, 2021

I'm here to tell you ...

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Some things about St Michael's sacred line and the seven sites: "An impressive and mysterious straight line, which runs from Irela...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

It Tolls for Thee

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  You can't beat a good bit of death, although a good bit of life is preferable. David Hockney once said that "the cause of death i...
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021

Funeral for a fridge

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The funeral for the fridge has yet to take place but it's passing has been a slow, sad, downhill process. At times we suspected there mi...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

The tyre that became a drum

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  Now a happy story of transition: And so the long journey from being a used motor car tyre to becoming a nicely sounding Taiko drum is comp...
Monday, February 15, 2021

Green unpleasant land

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  Last week we broke the blender. Some over enthusiastic smoothie processing caused catastrophic failure of a small but frangible internal p...
Sunday, February 14, 2021

Crumbs, tyres and a golden age.

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These are not the biscuits I expected to see when I opened the pack. Every one cracked and broken. A proper first world problem that can...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

Nae Fitba

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  I don't mention it much but I do follow and occasionally attend Scottish football matches. I've been to big games in the past but ...
Friday, February 12, 2021

A Perfect Minute

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If wasn't for Covid and Lockdown this might almost have been a perfect day, or at least a perfect minute. It was close enough. There pro...
Thursday, February 11, 2021

New Religion

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  Welcome to the seasonally adjusted shrine of happy Snow Buddha. Bow down, genuflect, seek peace and forgiveness and all that sort of nonse...
Wednesday, February 10, 2021

Snow photos required

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Scotland is basking in some normal wintertime weather so the law requires that obligatory snow photos are to be shared all across social med...
Tuesday, February 09, 2021

This blackbird

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This blackbird visits the feeding station on our window pretty much everyday. He's fond of meal worms, that's what we mainly feed hi...
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